Comments on: Better Image Detection

By: Retodon8

Retodon8 — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:11:48 +0000

Nimd4, I take it you’re not talking about your Quake III Gravatar, which looks fine here. Could you show the one that doesn’t work?
Btw, apokalyptik already mentioned it, but, I wouldn’t suggest a tiny 80^2 image in a 512^2 canvas. Normally Gravatars are shown smaller than that, meaning your actual subject would be just a speck most of the time.

wcraigtrader, Gravatars are probably square because squares are easiest to implement in any site design.
why would you even want to add padding to your Gravatar? Adding padding actually means removing image detail, since you overwrite it with black bars (or similar).
I guess you want transparent bars to fake non-square Gravatars, but as nice as the cropping tool is, it’s “just” a cropping tool, not an image editor. It’s nice and simple to use now; not a good idea to complicate it for a feature I haven’t heard anybody else request.

By: M

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 03:24:49 +0000

Everytime I try to sign in, I enter the fields, press the button, and nothing happens. Anyone have a solution?

By: Foundation Network Ltd

Foundation Network Ltd — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:18:23 +0000

Is it possible to display my Gravatar on Trackbacks as well? Most WordPress.com blogs display my Gravatar when I comment directly on another blog, but when I send a trackback an anonymous image is displayed.

By: G0nd0

G0nd0 — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 04:55:50 +0000

Congratulations on supporting more formats!!!!

By: wcraigtrader

wcraigtrader — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:42:49 +0000

Congratulations on supporting more formats.

I’ve just started using Gravatar, and the first thing I noticed was that it insists on square avatars and doesn’t give you the option of padding your images out to square, only cropping them down to square. What’s up with that?

By: nimd4

nimd4 — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:24:20 +0000

..doesn’t seem possible to edit previous comments; the problem occurs with transparent PNGs only.

By: nimd4

nimd4 — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:10:36 +0000

apokalyptik I did – and – nothing!.. the image comes out funky, although it’s an 80×80 on a 512×512 canvas; something needs to be fixed here, for gravatar to even (actually) work…

By: Elad

Elad — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 11:03:19 +0000

Hi, Any update about the jpg extention issue?

By: apokalyptik

apokalyptik — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:20:40 +0000

@cubesteak – For best results make a 512×512 pixel image with just the subject inside. Upload to gravatar, and expand the cropper box to encompass the entire image. That will give you the absolute best quality for your gravatar.

By: Omarm

Omarm — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:20:31 +0000

no..image